Victorian Current Acts

FORESTS ACT 1958 - SECT 107

If, before the commencement of section 6 of the Forests Amendment (Forest Firefighters Presumptive Rights Compensation) Act 2021 —

        (a)     a forest firefighter has made a claim for compensation under the Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2013 in respect of an injury that is a disease referred to in column 1 of the table in the Third Schedule which occurred on or after 1   June 2016; and

        (b)     the Authority has rejected the claim for compensation—

the forest firefighter is entitled to make a new claim for compensation in accordance with sections 72A to 72R.

S. 108 inserted by No. 46/2021 s. 8, repealed by No. 6254/1958 s. 108(4).

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S. 109 inserted by No. 24/2024 s. 29.